Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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News about Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jul. 31, 2015

Hilarie M Sheets Inside Art column; Guggenheim Museum acquires permanent performance work by artists Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly that includes standards on how piece should be taught and how performers would be paid. MORE

Jun. 26, 2015

Jun. 24, 2015

Plans for $147 million controversial Guggenheim museum in Helsinki, Finland, inch forward with announcement that design by Moreau Kusnoki Architectes has been selected after year-long competition; height and coloring of winning design, which features dark timber and lighthouselike tower, add to Finns' public objections over project, which many complain should not be funded by Finnish government. MORE

Mar. 21, 2015

First solo exhibition of Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian in United States opens at the Guggenheim; show features her mirrored, mosaic-style works inspired by both Islamic tradition and modernist art. MORE

Feb. 6, 2015

Nov. 9, 2014

Dior sponsors, for the second time, Guggenheim's fall gala, held in the museum's landmark rotunda. MORE

Nov. 7, 2014

About 20 people gather outside black-tie benefit for the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum to protest museum's plans for branch to be built on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; island is already home to a New York University campus build by migrant laborers who worked under harsh conditions and protesters are calling on Guggenheim to ensure against similar mistreatment of workers. MORE

Oct. 19, 2014

Adjunct curator Sandhini Poddar has put together retrospective for underappreciated Indian painter V S Gaitonde at Guggenheim Museum. MORE

Oct. 10, 2014

Jul. 15, 2014

Plans for proposed Guggenheim museum in Helsinki, Finland, prove polarizing, with left-of-center politicians warning that it could squander local resources; deal would cost a staggering $177 million; final decision will be determined largely by yearlong open international architectural competition, which began in June 2014. MORE

Jun. 13, 2014

Holland Cotter reviews exhibit Under the Same Sun: Art From Latin America Today at the Guggenheim Museum. MORE

May. 25, 2014

About 40 protesters critical of the Guggenheim Museum’s planned franchise in Abu Dhabi smuggle their own artworks into the Guggenheim in Manhattan, placing them in an exhibit of Italian futurism; intervention is part of growing protest over labor conditions for migrant workers on Saadiyat Island off the coast of Abu Dhabi, where museum's franchise is soon to be constructed. MORE

Mar. 26, 2014

Brian Seibert reviews Guggenheim Museum’s Works & Process series presentation of two dance pieces choreographed by Emery LeCrone, one classical, one contemporary, both set to Bach’s Partita No 2 in C minor. MORE

Mar. 20, 2014

Globalization of art through museums is often better served by smaller, more nimble institutions; recent staged protest at Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan regarding their outpost being built in Abu Dhabi highlights difficulties large institutions face, as their actions are more visible and therefore more scrutinized. MORE

Feb. 25, 2014

Brian Seibert reviews program of 19th-century ballets by Marius Petipa, performed by eight dancers from Pacific Northwest Ballet, at Guggenheim Museum as part of its Works & Process series. MORE

Feb. 21, 2014

Jan. 24, 2014

Holland Cotter reviews photographs by Carrie Mae Weems at the Guggenheim Museum. MORE

Jan. 21, 2014

Guggenheim Museum’s Italian Futurism retrospective, opening in February 2014, will be capped by five murals on loan from a post office in Sicily; rarely seen murals, called Synthesis of Communications, were painted in 1933 and 1934 by Futurist artist Benedetta Cappa, who was known only by her first name. MORE

Dec. 22, 2013

Guggenheim Museum has undertaken massive project to answer persistent questions regarding establishment of authenticity of pieces in its Panza Collection of Minimalist and Conceptual art; effort puts museum in controversial territory, be it aesthetic, legal or practical. MORE

Dec. 16, 2013

Dec. 3, 2013

Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi is transforming Prokofiev's 1936 fable Peter & the Wolf at Guggenheim Museum from concert and art installation to full theatrical production; show has become holiday tradition at museum, with different artists creating installations each year to visually interpret tale, which will be narrated by Mizrahi. MORE

Nov. 23, 2013

Ben Ratliff reviews performances by Joe McPhee, Arto Lindsay and the Thing at Nation Time, music event accompanying exhibition of paintings by Christopher Wool at Guggenheim Museum. MORE

Oct. 25, 2013

Roberta Smith reviews exhibit of paintings by Christopher Wool at the Guggenheim Museum. MORE

Oct. 4, 2013

Holland Cotter reviews Robert Motherwell: Early Collages exhibit at Guggenheim Museum. MORE

Sep. 20, 2013

Admit One column on Jeffrey Martinez, who during daytime is guard at Guggenheim Museum, watching over masterpieces and gently explaining art to visitors; at night, Martinez creates his own art. MORE

Jul. 22, 2013

Guggenheim Museum announces fall 2013 season of its Works & Process series, which offers audiences access to creators and performers of coming works. MORE

Jun. 25, 2013

Steve Smith reviews premieres of two new vocal works by John Zorn, performed at Guggenheim Museum. MORE

Mar. 23, 2013

Jon Pareles reviews premiere of electronic music piece Hive, written and performed by Tyondai Braxton at Guggenheim Museum. MORE

Mar. 21, 2013

Guggenheim Museum in New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, are planning coordinated, successive exhibitions dedicated to the work of James Turrell, artist who uses light as his primary medium. MORE

Mar. 20, 2013

Guggenheim Museum wins $10 million grant from Robert H N Ho Family Foundation to commission works from artists born in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong or Macau; money will also go toward endowing a curator at museum whose entire focus will be contemporary Chinese art. MORE

Feb. 22, 2013

Holland Cotter reviews exhibit No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia at Guggenheim Museum. MORE

Feb. 15, 2013

Roberta Smith reviews Gutai: Splendid Playground exhibition of Japanese postwar art at the Guggenheim Museum. MORE

Feb. 1, 2013

Karen Rosenberg reviews Paper Like Skin exhibit, featuring works of artist Zarina, at Guggenheim Museum. MORE

Nov. 16, 2012

Oct. 28, 2012

Patricia Cohen notes that New-York Historical Society’s exhibit on World War II, Metropolitan Museum’s survey of Andy Warhol, Guggenheim’s retrospective on Picasso and Hirshhorn Museum in Washington’s show on Ai Weiwei all seek to show new angles on topics that are already familiar to the public. MORE

Oct. 25, 2012

Guggenheim Museum conservators, using new infrared imaging techniques, are able to closely examine the portrait of a man underneath Picasso's 1904 painting Woman Ironing, which is on view in the museum's exhibition Picasso Black and White. MORE

Oct. 5, 2012

Karen Rosenberg reviews exhibit Picasso Black and White at the Guggenheim Museum. MORE

The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will be 12 times the size of the landmark Guggenheim museum in New York. To fill it with art, the curators first plan out the space with scaled-down models and tiny silver people.